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rAOB POUR. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936. 4 4 t j- — TbR Barnwell People-Sentinet JOHN W. HOLMES 1840—1913. 8. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year - $1.50 Six Months .90 ^ Three Months - .60 (Strictly in Advance.) w THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936. “The HumbuK DanRer.’ H ‘We were close to a revolution when Roosevelt took office,’ Governor Olin D. Johnston asserted,” an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Columbia reports. Where was the “revolution”? Where were the sipms of it ? They were not in Charleston. When the banks closed many people were alarmed and ex- citcM, “panic” affected all of us—but nobody grabbed a gun. In South Carolina the writer has witnessed before 1932 two periods when the price of cotton dropped be low five cents a poundl Nobody grab bed a gun. In March, 1933, when Mr. Roosevelt took office the cotton mills had been running about as usual R ince October, 1932. Thee was no problem of unem ployment in them. Nowhere in South Carolina during the first six months of 1933. three months before and three after Mr. Roosevelt took office, was unusual dis turbance or crime reported in South Carolina. After the “holiday” the banks that deserved to reopen would have reopen ed anyway. The fact is that between 1922 and January 15, 1932, three or four times as many banks “went broke” in South Carolina as after that time. If losses and depression be excuse fer “revolution” we South Carolinians should have resorted to it ten years before Mr. Roosevelt arrived to stop it* The naked fact is that in 1933 we had had mest of our losse R and not much remained to be lost in banks. The nearest approach to “revolu tion” or “insurrection” that we have seen in a long time in South Carolina was the textile strike. That wa 3 in 1934. Mr. Rooseveelt was president. Mr Roosevelt did not stop that vio lence. Our own people put a stop to it. When the South Carolinians are go d and readly for ‘revolution” no man will stop it without planty of cannon and machine guns. Danger of “revolution” in 1933! There was nr.re danger of humbug in South Carolina. That danger we still have with us.—News and Courier. The News and Courier is such a bitter and caustic critic of the New Deal—to such an extent that it think s that “nothing go:d can come out of Nazarath”—that it is probably a waste of time to remind 1 our Charleston con- temperary that in the closing days of the Hoover administration Mid-West farmers had resorted to shotguns to save their homes and farms fr mi fore closure and dairy farmers were riot ing in an effort to keep their products from the market in the hope tf forc ing living prices therefor. The people generally bad 1 entirely lost confidence in the hank s and were withdrawing funds at such a rate that if Presdient Ro sevelt had not ordered a “bank holiday” there probably would have been no banks that “deserved to reopen.” True, there Vas no blcody revolu tion in South Carolina, but we have been told that merchants in Colum bia and other cities of--th? State were fearful in th .se dark days that whole sale 1 noting was “just around, the cor ner” where prosperity was supposed to be. There is no denying the fact that the pe pie as a whole were in the depths of despair and almost without hope in the closing days of 1932 and anything could have happened but for the steadying influence if Mr. Roose velt’s election and the revival of hope in his leadership. The News and Courier itself admit s that “in 1933 we had had mo«t of our losses anil n t much remained to be lost in banks.” A comparison of the hopeless despair cf those days with the cheerful opti mism of today cannot be ign red by the News and Courier. It may agree with General Johnson Hagood that our money is “stage money,” but eve^n that i s better than no monejr at all. It is also true that the News and Courier ‘^writer has witnessed before 1932 two periods when the price of cotton dropped below five cents a pound,” but isn’t it equally as true that five centg cotton in 1932 was more ruinous to the farmers than a like price in the two periods referred to, due to the fact that the costs of manufactured articles that the form ers had to buy were much higher, to gmj nothing of the increased burden of taxation’? Then, too, conditions a s a whole have undergone a great change and the farmer 8 are no longer content to (submit to the privations incident to five-cent cotton when a large per centage of the popuiaticn enjoys the luxuries of life. It is this changed condition and the problems it has created that the News and Courier re fuses to recognize. - ■ - - '’ Can it be possible has lived on such i Tried shrimp since Charleston that he h ed> with chronic ini lieves his ill feeling wrath upon the New two year s ago, in th< cussion with The P the merits and demi Deal, our esteemed temporary admitted Roosevelt’s treatmen situation wa 8 one of administration that i For no other purpo keep the record stn producing herewith Courier’s editorial ui “Applauded Very Li News and. Courier no things that it applaut Here is what Doctor “How can The Barn that ‘The News and plauded very little Roosevelt has atten plish?’ “The News and Cou od President Rooset a mediate treatment < crises when he came “It has applauded cessful leadership in Eighteenth amendme , “It has described hii as an honest gentlem “It has appla udeO** ~ ^ lobbying and the pra s /*x departments by conj “It ha s applauded salary compensatiot bill. “It has applaudedl of fedleral officeholde: paign funds. “It has applauded the merit, or civil f in which he is opp« rassed by nearly all i a no hope for the N the merit system—b South Carolinian wl to an efficient Repul in office for the Nev “It defends and urj by congress of hi* bills. “While opposed to payers’ money, for declares that if that be violated, the pvt reservations is wise “It has repeatedly suits of the NRA hai to the textile industr lina and has approvec the working week • h wever, it does not « ciple of governmen with industry. “Where is anothe South Carolina that defended the preside! tion toward those of 1 are unpopular in Sou Wherein lies the gi Danger” in South ( assertions of politicia ial expressions of nev In the words of the boy, “We ask to knot Prcsb>tcriau Chu: Pi i . ; byt.crian Chun be conducted in the Church Sunday after clock by the Rev. Y public is cordially in? Birth of a 4. I Mr. and Mrs. Johr nounce the birth of baby boy on March infant son has been - ryclear Scoville, Jr., Advertise in The J INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FROM ASHLEIGH SECTION Ashleigh, March 10.—Gordon Hair enlisted in the U.*S. army at the Co lumbia recruiting station recently and is new stationed at Fort Moultrie, near Charleston. v D. I. Ross, Jr., spent the week-end at the home of Mrs. W. H. Morris in DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Offices 956 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. NOTICT TO CRfeDITORS. All nersans having alauua a«rain«t. & rv f'm 'A • •*5« f .l/tsi L-f'i PAGE TWELVE THE STATE FARMER SECTION ■. M M J CHOICEST. Jack Gardner, young American sculptor picks Anita Lou ise as Hollywood's most beautiful girl and then tries to copy hor faco in clay. (Aemo) 1 4 J \ % , BLUEJACKETS, m white, from the U. S S. Augusta of the Asiatic fleet view this etately mosque during their visit to Singapore, China. (.\<-iiii ) Right: AND 50-POUND CROP. 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